How to Use explicit in a Sentence

explicit

adjective

• The law is very explicit about how these measures should be enacted.
• Changes to the property can't be done without their explicit consent.
• The movie contains scenes of explicit violence.
• They were given explicit instructions.
• The signs were there, and yet nothing was made entirely explicit.
  — Myisha Battle, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• That could change if Mr. Putin decides to make more explicit his threats to use nuclear weapons.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Most of Musk’s announced plans and goals center on growing audience and revenues, but there have been a few more explicit ideas bandied about by the billionaire.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Jonathan’s father takes it a step further, sending Robert explicit photographs of Catherine taken by his late son.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• Over the past several months, Putin has made several references to nuclear weapons, with the latest being the most explicit so far.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2022
• The 49-year-old Shapiro then became more explicit about the implications of a Mastriano win.
  — Marc Levy, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
• There is also a clean version of the album being sold, suggesting that the standard edition contains explicit content like her past few releases.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• This month, Kim repeated an explicit threat to use nuclear weapons in the event of conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
  — Christine Ahn, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
• The Like Water for Chocolate references are sometimes explicit: There is the book, opened to the recipe for codornices en pétalos de rosa.
  — Andrea Aliseda, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2022
• Roberts says that the org wanted to be explicit in the strategy document about the funding challenges and at the same time embrace the opportunities, with digital being a key factor.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
• Employers should equally scrutinize office-centric work and set more explicit boundaries and expectations for their employees.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
• And it’s, again, on the verge of being too explicit in a way.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
• The desire is to change the state of the law without being explicit about that.
  — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• Thenell said some of the comments are crude and explicit.
  — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• This is most explicit when the basis of the law is scriptural.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Alex and Paul’s love scene was more explicit than we’re used to seeing on the show.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• But the language: The show is full of explicit words, all ripped from real life.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• It was done in a way that was not explicit, even to some of the people that were working on it.
  — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 21 Nov. 2018
• He was seen wearing a shirt with an explicit word on it.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• The court has been very explicit — history has to be our guide here.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Should Tiexiera and Hall have made that detail explicit in the text?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• Outside of Times Square, that’s an explicit cry for help.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• The goal of winning the match was still explicit, but there was no input data.
  — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 24 May 2017
• Some films were even more explicit about how changing times left some with nowhere left to call home.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
• The rest of her work, though highly charged, is never so explicit.
  — Sasha Weiss Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The store has no explicit theme, but it's grouped in a flurry of categories.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 13 July 2017

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024